CH
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Uganda tour with Paul
We had a great experience with Terrain Safaris, mostly thanks to Paul who has been a fantastic guide. He drove us around Uganda for about 10 days, showed us around and even introduced us to his family. He has an extensive knowledge of his country, about the geography and more importantly about the fauna. He is a passionate birdwatcher and will show you animals you would never spot yourself!! I only keep great memories of that trip to Uganda and would highly recommend it to anyone! Don't miss the bungy jump, Paul will tell you all about it ;-)
IN
35-50 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Excellent Offer - Excellent Service - Excellent Coordination
I found Wildebeest Safari on Safari booking and got in touch with NOAH. He was too prompt and the way the tour was presented was the ice breaker. He is a good man and very active in reverting to any type of query. Everything was well planned from the pick up, the camp in Masai Mara and lodge in Naivasha. The land cruiser vehicle quality was very good and I rate Noah 10/10 for this service and planning. Though I wanted to meet him in Nairobi to appreciate his work but he was busy to catch up. We had a memorable trip to Kenya!
IN
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Awesome Experience
We went to Kenya in the month of August mainly to witness the Great Migration in Masai Mara. After going through the reviews in Safari Bookings, we finalised on Beacon Safaris. Mr.Robert who is in charge of Beacon Safaris was very prompt and diligent with his responses. There was never a delay from his side ever. We stayed in some amazing places at Masai Mara, Amboseli and Lake Nakuru. It was absolutely wonderful. Our guide throughout the journey was Mr.Henderson who was very knowledgeable and kept giving us some many trivia about animals while we were on safari. I would definitely recommend Beacon Safaris anyday. I also felt their prices were reasonable. Plus the experience has just been wonderful!
AL
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
good experience
we did a 2 days trip to Mikumi, the staf was helpful, good vehicle and nice and friendly guide and driver.
FR
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Nice safari but dishonest company
We had a very nice 3 days 2 nights safari in the Masai mara. Our guide Richard was the best driver and we managed to see a lot of animals. But Okoa asked me to pay enormous Bank fees and when I arrived they still asked for more money even though I paid more than what I was supposed to. I wanted to go so I paid but I really feel cheated.
MY
20-35 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Amazing Safari of a lifetime.
Amazing! As cliché as it sounds, I have no other word to express my experience going on a safari with them.
It was my husband and my own first time in Africa and we had booked a trip to Tanzania on a whim. When I finally started looking to book us a safari, it was already late December 2016 and I was overwhelmed as where to start. I knew from the very beginning though that I would want to book through a locally owned company. Finding a reputable one was another headache. I can't express my thankfulness enough to have come across Bright African Safaris.
Everyone at Bright African Safaris (BAS) has been nothing but accommodating from the very beginning. Rukia wonderfully put up a few customised itinerary options for us to choose from through e-mails based on my request and budget. She was so patient dealing with me although I kept amending the itineraries. And finally, when I thought we had everything figured out, I realised I had booked the wrong dates as we were supposed to arrive earlier. I immediately contacted Rukia, and within 2 hours (I kid you not), she came back saying it's okay and she would take care of the logistics with the lodges and hotels. No nonsense given whatsoever. Phew!! That's some customer service there. As we had an extra day in the area before our flight out, we also asked them if they could arrange a day trip for us to Lake Chala and again, they took care of the request. Thank you so much for making my life easier.
First full day in the country, we went for a little hike in Kilimanjaro National Park, arranged by BAS on our request. Our guide, Mr Elly is very knowledgeable and has been a mountain guide for 20 years. Though it was a rather short time spent together, he told us a lot about Tanzania and Kilimanjaro. Kilimanjaro, to say the least, is spectacular. Oh yeah, our knees hurt and our legs almost gave out after 18 kms hike (to and from the first hut), but we arrived in Arusha before our safari with smiles on our first.
We went on a safari in Serengeti and Ngorongoro afterwards, guided by Mrindoko and accompanied by Mr Jamal, our cook for the last night in Ngorongoro. We had chosen to stay in tented lodge in Serengeti but thought we should experience budget camping for at least a night. After a short briefing in BAS office in Arusha by Mr Msangi himself (I was a bit disappointed at this point when he told us that the migration is yet to be in full swing due to the delay of the raining season, so it might be best to skip Ndutu), we set out for Serengeti.
The safari itself was amazing and we wouldn't change a thing. Mrindoko is an excellent guide. He has excellent eyes for animals and I believe he has an ability to predict their movements too, especially lions. He asked us what would we like to see on the safari and my husband jokingly told him that he wanted to see buffaloes chasing lions. And, we got to see just that! On our last day in Serengeti, we came upon a big pride of lions resting. Few other safari vehicles were around to take pictures and observe them but they soon moved away while Mrindoko asked us if we would like to wait a bit as he thought two of the lionesses were stalking a bachelor of buffaloes which were feeding on the other side. We didn't see the buffaloes before he mentioned them and we didn't notice any stalking motion. And true enough, after about 30 minutes, and more vehicles started coming in, we got to see the action. The lions managed to initially surprise the buffaloes but the buffaloes went after the lions instead and they got away. He also managed to find us leopards (a mother and two cubs) on a tree, during daylight, which we were told is quite rare. He was the first to spot them (from quite a far) and afterwards, radioed other vehicles. Thanks to him, we managed to see all Big 5 and more. We even saw a rabbit, few tortoises and a couple of hyenas mating on the road. He prefers to do game drive away from other vehicles and we really appreciated this as it gave us our own time and space to observe the animals, as long as we wanted.
Mr Jamal is an excellent cook. He didn't manage to cook more than one night for us but that dinner was the most delicious meal we had in our entire time in Tanzania. We got to the camp a bit later as our jeep had an unfortunate breakdown on our way out of Serengeti due to the deluge (Mrindoko and Jamal fixed it up, so we didn't have to wait hours for a backup jeep or anything and vehicle breakdown is fairly common on safari, so don't be alarmed). Even though it was late, Jamal went on to cook very delicious and hearty zucchini soup and wali while the rest of us set up the tents. We are so glad that he cooked us something local. I am now convinced that if you go on budget camping and you want to be properly fed throughout, you should ask for him.
Mrindoko also drove us on our last day to Lake Chala for a day trip before dropping us at JRO. Lake Chala, which is 3/4 in Tanzania and 1/4 in Kenya is a perfect place to wind down after a safari. Had we known we could stay there, we would have booked a night or two in the place. What a beautiful beautiful place. Both Mrindoko and Jamal are super friendly and easy-going, and always dressed neatly and professionally. Mrindoko attended to all our questions patiently, no matter how ridiculous they were.
After safari, we met with Msangi again for a debrief and he was really interested in listening to our feedbacks, even asked us what they could do to improve etc. We, of course, have only good things to say with suggestions for minor improvements, but those were really nitpicking. We are avid travellers and have been around the world a fair bit, but this is the first time the owner of a tour operator personally met up with us to ask for feedbacks and to say goodbye.
Rest assured, you will get a highly personalised service from everyone at BAS. If we ever return to Tanzania, they would be the company we would contact and go to for any future business. Thank you for making our trip of a lifetime a memorable one.
US
Review about Kruger National Park by Abhi Muthiyan
Plenty of wild life in the park. Relatively easy to spot the big five.
All elephants have tusks, kudos to South African conservancy programs.
US
50-65 years of age | Experience level: first safari
Kenya with African Sermon Safaris
We booked our trip with African Sermon Safaris with great expectations of a fabulous trip and African Sermon Safaris delivered! They seemed to go well beyond delivering the transportation and accommodations that they agreed to provide; they seemed to feel an obligation to deliver the experience. Even when a few small glitches in the itinerary developed (neither through any fault of African Sermon Safaris), they quickly developed a workaround that in some ways was even better than the original plan! Fabulous trip and no hesitation whatsoever in recommending Daniel and John (out driver) to anyone interested in the experience of a lifetime!
US
Awesome combination of wild life in natural habitat, urban beauty and history!
Kruger national park is a beautiful, huge game reserve. No fences for miles in one of the world's largest national park.
Staying inside the park is an amazing experience. You can see the wild life at your door step.
Cape Town is one of the most scenic cities in the world. Go to Cape Town for all kinds of adventure activities including hiking the Table Top mountain and shark cage diving.
CN
20-35 years of age | Experience level: 2-5 safaris
Right Choice is my right choice
We had 11days safari + 3days Zanzibar island + 1day city tour with Right Choice Tours & Safaris this August. Our itinerary around two countries (Kenya and Tanzania) was designed by myself, which was a little complicated, but George, the owner of this company, arranged it very well. Every time, he responded email very quickly, and was always nice and helpful. Unlike some big companies, Right Choice Tours & Safaris is very flexible, they can make personalized itinerary for customers, this is really my favorite, and their quotation is also reasonable.
However, there were still a few small defects. For example, I had made agreement with George, that Jacob would be our guide in Kenya , but actually, it was Kennedy, a guy we didn't like very much. Some times he was lazy, but the most serious problem was he way he talked, it seemed he was not a guide, but a boss, a commander. He was alway easy to be angry and impolite. I think Jacob would be much better. Thanks for Lazarus, our guide in Tanzania, who was really a professional guide and good man, made our safari perfectly ended.
Over all, we enjoyed our holiday in Africa very much, and Right Choice is our right choice. Thanks George.